Quiz 7 : Andrew Foster Flashcards
What school did he attend (not college)?
The Alabama school for the colored deaf in Talladega
When did he lose his hearing?
Age 11
What did he do when he was 17?
Moved to Michigan, taking night classes and working odd jobs
When and were was he accepted to college?
Gallaudet University in 1951
Why is his college enrollment significant?
One of the first 3 black deaf students to be enrolled at the school
When attending Gallaudet, Foster noticed an address book saying what?
Of world deaf schools, only 12 were in Africa
When did he get his bachelors?
1954
Where did he get his masters? Second masters?
Eastern Michigan University
Seattle Pacific Christian College
What did he found in 1956?
The Christian Mission for the Deaf (CMD)
When did he go to Africa? What happened within a year?
- Established the first school for the Deaf in Accra, Ghana in a small room borrowed from a church
How many students attended the first year?
Which quickly grew to?
12
53 students
Meeting times of the first Deaf school in Accra, Africa?
4 to 5 for children
6-7 for adults
With the school in Accra, Ghana, what happened by 1959? Five years later?
The school had a wait list of 100, then 300
Foster did what before 1962?
Opened 3 more schools in Nigeria
How many schools for the deaf did he establish? In how many countries?
31 schools in thirteen countries.
What else did he found besides the 31 deaf schools (college wise)?
The African Bible College for the Deaf
He became president of what?
The Council for the Education and Welfare of the Deaf in Africa
Gallaudet University awarded him what? When?
The Honorary Doctorate in 1970
Foster believed that freedom of communication was the key to ? And that freedom was achieved through ?
Key to education, achieved through sign language
By 1974, there were how many deaf schools in Africa?
70
Continuing his training through the 80s, Foster continue traveling the world speaking and fundraising for his cause, touching how many states? And how many African countries?
47 of 50 states
25 African counties
How, when, and where did Andrew Foster die?
1987 he died at age 62 in a plane crash in Rwanda and was buried there
What award recognizes excellence in teaching at their biennial conference?
The National Association of the Deaf’s Andrew J. Foster award
Gallaudet University and the NBDA established what? That does what?
The Andrew Foster Endowment that offers scholarships to college-bound African American students
There is what at Gallaudet university?
The Andrew Foster Auditorium, with a bronze bust of Foster installed in the front of the auditorium in 2004, a gift from the NBDA
What is NBDA?
National Black Deaf Association
How many schools are in Africa now?
Over 300
Andrew Foster lived what years?
1925-1987
Where was Foster born?
In a steel-mill town near Birmingham, Alabama.
